Unfortunately, lacking any real knowledge, we parrot the words of political leaders, posing them as our own thoughts. We treat politics as a football game. If your guy cheats on a crossword puzzle, damn him, put him in prison, flog him and off with his head, not necessarily in that order.
If our guy takes bribes to give hostile nations a pass on rearming with biological weapons, and incidentally sends them a couple shipments of anthrax, well, that excusable. Anybody could make such a mistake, if that is even a mistake. And we begin to advocate giving anthrax to all nations as a gesture of trust.
Our guy good. Your guy bad. That is politics today. That and the pursuit of personal destruction of the opposition, impeaching them, boycotting them, shouting them down when all they wanted to say is that they like puppies, attacking their supporters with knives, sticks and bricks, destroying innocent people's property as some kind of "protest" against a totally different group of people. That is politics today. We should hire a nation who doesn't care about our politics to arrest such houligans and put them in prison, no matter what their political affiliation.
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